Radiotherapy, High-Energy
"Radiotherapy, High-Energy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Radiotherapy using high-energy (megavolt or higher) ionizing radiation. Types of radiation include gamma rays, produced by a radioisotope within a teletherapy unit; x-rays, electrons, protons, alpha particles (helium ions) and heavy charged ions, produced by particle acceleration; and neutrons and pi-mesons (pions), produced as secondary particles following bombardment of a target with a primary particle.
| Descriptor ID |
D011882
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.815.722
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Radiotherapy, High-Energy" by people in Profiles.
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Characteristics associated with swallowing changes after concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008 Oct; 134(10):1060-5.
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Design optimization of intraoperative radiotherapy cones. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2003 Apr 01; 55(5):1446-57.
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Evaluation and characterization of parallel plate microchamber's functionalities in small beam dosimetry. Med Phys. 2002 Nov; 29(11):2489-96.
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Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: local-regional radiation therapy after bone marrow transplantation. Radiology. 1997 Jun; 203(3):865-70.
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Radiation therapy in the management of patients with malignant carcinoid tumors. Cancer. 1995 Mar 15; 75(6):1386-90.
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Cisplatin and etoposide before definitive radiation therapy for inoperable squamous carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and large cell carcinoma of the lung: a phase I-II study of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group. Cancer Treat Rep. 1986 Oct; 70(10):1219-20.
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Improved control in advanced head and neck cancer with simultaneous radiation and cisplatin/5-FU chemotherapy. Cancer Treat Rep. 1985 Sep; 69(9):933-9.